Miller@Letchworth
Located on the northern edge of the beautiful Garden City, Miller@ Letchworth makes inspired use of a cherished building set in extensive landscaping to create a selection of exceptional new homes. Within a pleasant walk of the charming town centre and just a three-mile drive from the A1(M), this is a prestigious development of genuine style and quality.
The First Garden City
Following the vision of Ebenezer Howard, and his desire to combine the benefits of town and country living in one place, Letchworth Garden City was founded in 1903, starting a movement that spread throughout the world. The sensitive landscaping and sense of open green space with broad, tree-lined avenues are designed to offer the ideal combination of natural and human values.
Education
There is a full range of facilities from nursery to high school provision in easy reach of Miller@Letchworth, including a pre-school centre a few minutes walk away in Common View, and junior and primary schools within around half a mile. Local secondaries include the Highfield School, a Specialist Science School, and the Knights Templar which is a Specialist College in Sport and the Performing Arts.
Outdoor activities
Miller@Letchworth is less than 500 yards from Norton Common, a beautiful wooded parkland that, in addition to incorporating tennis courts and bowling greens, is home to colonies of Muntjac deer and unusual black squirrels. It is also the location of the town’s celebrated open air swimming pool, open from May to September. The Common is bisected by Broadway, a delightful tree-lined avenue providing a pleasant walking route into the town centre. And around a mile to the west of the development, the charming Standalone Farm, a working farm on the edge of the town, offers an exciting opportunity to learn about both livestock and wildlife. The farm also has exhibition and picnic areas.
Transport
Close to the A1(M). Miller@Letchworth is just over an hour’s drive from London and an ideal commuter base for centres such as Milton Keynes, Northampton and Cambridge. Letchworth station, around ten minutes walk from the development, is a 45 minute journey from London Kings Cross and less than half an hour from Cambridge. There are good local bus services from the development into Letchworth and the surrounding villages, and Luton Airport is just over ten miles away.
Sport and leisure
Fearnhill Sports Centre, located at the south-east corner of Norton Common includes a gym, a fitness room, a sports hall and a climbing wall. There is a second leisure centre in Baldock Road, around a mile-and-a-half from Miller@Letchworth, with a leisure pool, toddlers’ pool, a well-equipped gym, aerobics studios, squash courts and a sports hall. Letchworth Golf Club, on the southern edge of the town, combines a mature parkland course with welcoming hospitality facilities.
Entertainment
Plinston Live, based in a flexible and recently refurbished venue in the centre of the town, presents an extremely busy and varied programme of live events and entertainment ranging from wrestling to play schemes, including touring bands, talks and theatre. The Broadway Cinema in the town centre is an independent cinema housed in a superb art deco building, revitalised and reopened around ten years ago with a triple-screen facility.
Shopping
There is a small shopping area at The Parade, less than half a mile to the west of Miller@Letchworth, that includes a supermarket, a post office and an off-licence. In Letchworth town centre there is an assortment of high street names, local traders and speciality shops interspersed with cafés, bars and restaurants. Many national chains, such as Boots, Zavvi, Etam and New Look are represented in the Garden Square Shopping Centre, and there are further shopping precincts at The Arcade, The Wynd and The Gallery.
Health care
The choice of nearby health centres includes the Birchwood Surgery and the Garden City Surgery, both within ten minutes’ walk. There are also convenient dental facilities in Station Road and Nevells Road.
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